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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
13429 Alexander M. Danzer
Carsten Feuerbaum
Fabian Gaessler
Labor Supply and Automation Innovation
While economic theory suggests substitutability between labor and capital, little evidence exists regarding the causal effect of labor supply on inventing labor-saving technologies. We analyze the ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 235, 105136)
O31, O33, J61
13428 David Adler
Edson Severnini
Timing Matters: Shifting Economic Activity and Intra-Day Variation in Ambient Ozone Concentrations
Ground-level ozone has been shown to have significant health consequences from short-term exposure, and as such has been regulated in the U.S. since the 1970s by the Environmental Protection Agency ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2023, 223, 104905)
Q53, Q58
13425 Gregory Verdugo
Guillaume Allègre
Labour Force Participation and Job Polarization: Evidence from Europe during the Great Recession
We document how differences in labour demand by gender explain the contrasting evolutions of labour force participation between men and women during the Great Recession in Europe. We first highlight ...
(published in: Labour Economics, 2020, 66, 101881)
J21, J23, J24
13424 Barry R. Chiswick
RaeAnn Halenda Robinson
Women at Work in the Pre-Civil War United States: An Analysis of Unreported Family Workers
Rates of labor force participation in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century among free women were exceedingly (and implausibly) low, about 11 percent. This is due, in part, to social ...
(published as 'Women at work in the United States since 1860: An analysis of unreported family workers' in: Explorations in Economic History, 2021, 82, 101406)
N31, J16, J21, J82
13422 Girum Abebe
Margaret McMillan
Michel Serafinelli
Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations
We use a plant level survey to identify interactions between domestic plants and foreign direct investment (FDI) in Ethiopia's manufacturing sector. One third of Ethiopian plants are linked to FDI ...
(published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2022, 158, 102926)
F21, O18, D24
13420 Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
Arnab K. Basu
Nancy H. Chau
Devashish Mitra
Offshoring to a Developing Nation with a Dual Labor Market
We present a model of offshoring of tasks to a developing nation, which is characterized by a minimum wage formal sector and a flexible wage informal sector. Some offshored tasks are outsourced by ...
(published in: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, 2020, 102 (3), 237-253)
F1, F2, J4, J8
13419 Stefano Baruffaldi
Felix Poege
A Firm Scientific Community: Industry Participation and Knowledge Diffusion
We study the diffusion of knowledge from scientists to firms within scientific communities. We build on a unique dataset on conference proceedings as "paper trail" of almost all relevant conference ...
(published online as 'Like Stars: How Firms Learn at Scientific Conferences' in: Management Science, 24 May 2025)
O33, O32, D22
13418 Ingo E. Isphording
Nico Pestel
Pandemic Meets Pollution: Poor Air Quality Increases Deaths by COVID-19
We study the impact of short-term exposure to ambient air pollution on the spread and severity of COVID-19 in Germany. We combine data on county-by-day level on confirmed cases and deaths with ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2021, 108, 102448)
I12, I18, Q53
13417 N. Meltem Daysal
Michael F. Lovenheim
Nikolaj Siersbæk
David N. Wasser
Home Prices, Fertility, and Early-Life Health Outcomes
We estimate the effect of housing price changes on fertility and early-life child health in Denmark. Using rich population register data among women aged 20-44 who own a home, we find that for each ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2021, 198, 104366)
J13
13416 Jens Ruhose
Stephan L. Thomsen
Insa Weilage
Are Older Workers Willing to Learn?
Adult education can mitigate the productivity decline in aging societies if older workers are willing to learn. We examine a generous partial retirement reform in Germany that led to a massive ...
(revised version published as 'No mental retirement: estimating voluntary adult education activities of older workers' in: Education Economics, 2023, 32 (4), 440–473. )
J14, J24, J26
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